massy

American  

[mas-ee] / ˈmæs i /

adjective

massier, massiest

1. massive.

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massy British  

/ ˈmæsɪ /

adjective

1. a literary word for massive

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Other Word Forms

• massiness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of massy

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at mass, -y ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

massy massier massiest

Indeed, Stonehenge’s massy blocks seem irresistible to copyists: a website, Clonehenge, charts replicas made of everything from cars and lava-lamps to vegetables and gingerbread.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019

Those macroscopic rules, he said, stemmed from the systematic combination of microscopic bodies: solid, massy and hard, as Isaac Newton had put it in a phrase Dalton was fond of quoting.

From Nature ● Aug. 30, 2016

Leathery, massy, meditative Mies van der Rohe is famed in Europe and the U. S. for one beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the petulant mouth, the long neck, the buggy eyes, the massy hair.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The massier paused and looked up, one finger between the leaves of the ledger.

From The King in Yellow by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stands apart from trace of human habitation; yet hath it pulpit, reading-desk, and trim front of massiest marble, as if Robinson Crusoe had reared it to soothe himself with old church-going images.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary